Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead as the primary interfacewith regulatory agencies specifically FAA and EASA representing the site with confidence transparency and accountability.
• Develop and own the new GE sites Quality Management System ensuring it meets all regulatory and business requirements and is understood followed and continuously improved by the team.
• Build and sustain a Culture of Qualityby setting clear expectations modeling desired behaviors holding the team accountable and recognizing proactive quality actions.
• Provide strong leadership for RCCAby:
  • Leading structured root cause investigations for significant nonconformances and escapes
  • Ensuring corrective and preventive actions are effective sustainable and verified
  • Driving standardization and best practice sharing with other GE Aerospace and OWS shops
• Oversee and perform internal auditslocally and at remote locations ensuring findings are translated into clear actions owners and timelines and that closures are rigorously verified.
• Lead the Quality training planfor all staff ensuring training needs are identified curricula are developed and completion and effectiveness are tracked and reinforced.
• Partner with the Business Leader and support teamsto maintain and improve the GE Aerospace Flight Deck Management System ensuring alignment between quality operations and business objectives.
• Own the proactive quality frameworkfor reducing quality risk at the shop including risk assessments trend analysis and preventive actions driven from data and RCCA learnings.
• Use data to leadby establishing and monitoring key Quality metrics (e.g. defects escapes audit findings RCCA cycle time) leading regular reviews and driving actions to improve Safety Quality Delivery and Cost.
• Coach and develop the teamin problem-solving RCCA tools and quality mindset building capability at all levels of the organization.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Aeronautical/Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent technical degree/license.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the aviation industry.
• 5 years of experience working with aviation regulatory agencies.
• Knowledge of FAA FAR 145 procedures or equivalent required.
• Qualified auditor or demonstrated auditing experience required.
• 5 years of MRO experience is essential; engine test knowledge is beneficial to this role long term.
• 5 years of demonstrated experienceleading cross-functional teamsthrough investigations root cause analysis and implementation of corrective/preventive actions.

Desired Characteristics:

• Leadership & Influence: Able to set direction make decisions with a quality-first mindset challenge the status quo constructively and influence without direct authority across functions and locations.
• Root Cause & Problem-Solving Mindset: Skilled in structured problem-solving methods (e.g. 5-Why Fishbone 8D) using data and facts to drive durable corrective and preventive actions.
• Respect for People: Demonstrates commitment to put safety first leads with transparency and invests in coaching feedback and development of others.
• Continuous Improvement Orientation: Acts with humility is open to new ways of working learns from shortcomings and embraces candor and information sharing to solve problems and prevent recurrence.
• Customer Driven: Prioritizes work to maximize impact for customers listens actively to internal and external stakeholders and translates feedback into meaningful quality improvements.
• Strong Communication Skills: Clearly communicates expectations decisions and quality requirements across all levels; able to present complex RCCA outcomes in a simple actionable way.
• Results Focused: Drives closure of actions follows through on commitments and consistently aligns decisions with Safety Quality Delivery and Cost objectives.

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